Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:50:46 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Solved: Lost MBR/wrong disk geometry Message-ID: <41AA0FF6.1000208@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <41A8DB45.5070505@locolomo.org> References: <41A8D1FA.8030005@locolomo.org> <41A8D7D0.8020400@gldis.ca> <41A8DB45.5070505@locolomo.org>
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Erik Norgaard wrote: > Jeremy Faulkner wrote: >> 'fdisk -B' didn't work? > Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians* dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32 fdisk -BI ad0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32 bsdlabel -w -B ad0s1 did the job. I think I shouldn't have specified -w in the last command because it created a root partition taking the whole disk which I then had to delete. But, at least I'm up booting :-) Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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